- Website
- http://www.vernnelson.com
- Description
- Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official political troubadour of Anaheim and most other OC towns. Regularly makes solo performances, sometimes with his savage-jazz band The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
I guess I was hoping to speak to a lot of readers who might not be familiar with the term…
Corporatist is good since these types are always affiliating themselves with the big money, the big labor or the big…
Now Ali Taj has raised more than either ADA (like by 40k) and pulido during the same reporting period. Dispelling…
Yeah, it's hard for me to choose the perfect terminology, corporatist, kleptocrat, DINO, vendido, many others, but I decided to…
Chad Bianco up on broadcast with his first spot. Wearing his Sheriff shirt [does he own anything else?] lest we…
I suspect that for most voters the operative motivation will be keeping the other party from winning, even if that…
You're a dog with a bone on this. Equally valid legally, fine (though distinctly defined in law as different in…
The "business Democrat" label is misleading, unless you count kleptocracy, Zionism and cop-loving to the mix. That's been going on…
Spitzer is very particular about who he go after for residency fraud.
![Report from the Front Lines: Occupy’s Feb 29 Mira Loma ALEC Action That Occupy event last Wednesday when we shut down the largest Walmart distribution center in the world, up in Mira Loma? Turns out that was part of a nationwide day […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/crowd-with-mountains-115x115.jpg)
![Seriously, Republicans? A little over a year ago, I wrote the following passage about Congressional Republicans, who were then shocking and scaring the nation by openly attempting to destroy Medicare: …today’s Republican […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hair-on-fire-reversed-115x115.jpg)
![The Fair Board Is TRANSFORMED. Excellent news for all of us who care about not only the Orange County Fairgrounds, but also the quaint notions of accountability, open governance, and justice for crooks: Governor Brown […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brown-Fair-Board-Appointees-115x115.jpg)
![Restore California’s “Millionaires Tax” is Unstoppable! If you’re one of those drinkers of the Republican Party Kool-Aid (no offense to any intelligent registered Republicans out there) – if you believe our state and nation “doesn’t have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/millionaires-tax-logo-stretched-horizontal-115x115.jpg)
![“TOO BAD, VIETS!” says the OC GOP, “It’s NOT YOUR TIME in the 72nd AD!” As far as I can tell, Pedroza’s OCPolitics Blog broke the news for the English-speaking world: Republican Assembly candidate for the 72nd District, Westminster Councilman Tyler Diep, has dropped out […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/diep-harper-115x115.jpg)
![The Plot Sickens – Medical Marijuana Program Muzzled on KOCI, 4th update! Since this story just keeps getting weirder and weirder, I’m going to arrange this post like the OC Weekly’s Navel Gazing Blog does, with the latest update at the top. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fight-censorship-cropped-115x115.jpg)
![People Power Beats the Bastards for the Third Time in 35 Days! THREE TIMES already in this very short year – that is, if you cheat a little and count New Year’s Eve as part of 2012 – spontaneous and overwhelming outrage […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Simpsons_torch_mob-115x115.jpg)
![Orange County’s Ritual Humiliation, aka Dana Rohrabacher. Damn, what schmucks we are here in the OC. What rubes, what drooling idiots. It’s surprising we don’t sit and play in traffic more than we do. Someone should just […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kennedy-and-Dana-2-115x115.jpg)
![John Williams Agonistes Well, that was an interesting morning in the courtroom, albeit a long, tedious and ultimately unsatisfying morning. We walked in, a little over a dozen of us, with John S. […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/williams-spitzer-115x115.jpg)
![Is the OC’s tumor John Williams leaving or not? Carlson out in AD-74; and Loretta backs Julio! A few interesting things that happened in the OC, around the same time as President Obama’s very encouraging Occupy-influenced State of the Union Address: Worst Public Administrator Ever (John S […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/williams-mansoor-perez-115x115.jpg)
![Are Corporations People? We say, “No, my friend!” Movement to Amend Constitution begins TODAY (Friday) in Santa Ana. Sadly, Romney is technically right. Since the sneaky re-interpretation of the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause enshrined in the “headnotes” of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad by devious railroad […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/corppeople-115x115.jpg)
![My letter to S-Kang: Re-open investigation into Dick Ackerman’s Illegal Fairgrounds Lobbying! Here goes nothing. Hand delivery tomorrow or Friday… January 16, 2011 Dear Ms. Kang Schroeder: Looking back over the work many of us did over the last couple of years […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SKang-Vern-Ackerman-115x115.jpg)
![R. (“Riggy-fluffer”) Scott Moxley calls us some nasty names! (With poll.) The things that pop up to distract you when you’re trying to prepare a foolproof legal case against sleazy ex-Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, the Judas of the Fairgrounds! Suddenly […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/moxley-115x115.jpg)
I am old enough to remember, back in the day when Dems first started winning partisan elections in OC. The…